Spring Parish Church And Graveyard Dunino Fife Scotland

Tour Scotland Spring 4K travel video of the graveyard and and parish church in Dunino on ancestry, history visit to Fife. The kirk is situated among open agricultural land on a hill rising to the east of Dunino Burn. It sits in an old graveyard which may be the site of an earlier church, because although the present building dates to the early nineteenth century, the site itself has been a place of worship for perhaps as much as a thousand years. The church is built from rectangular blocks of sandstone with ashlar dressings; it has a Scottish slate roof and a north porch. On the west gable is a bellcote with gablets on all four sides and a crocketed spirelet. The graveyard around the church features several stones which are older than the church itself, evidence of a much earlier building. The church was designed by James Gillespie Graham who was born in Dunblane on 11 June 1776, the son of Malcolm Gillespie, a solicitor. He was christened as James Gillespie. Graham designed principally country houses and churches. In 1815 he married Margaret Ann Graham, daughter of a wealthy landowner, William Graham of Orchill in Perthshire. Together they had two daughters. In 1825, on the death of his wife's father, the couple inherited his large country estate, and James thereafter became known as James Gillespie Graham. His wife died in 1826, and he married again, to Elizabeth Campbell, daughter of Major John Campbell of the 76th Regiment of Foot. He designed and built a house at 34 Albany Street in Edinburgh's New Town for himself and his wife and lived there from 1817 to 1833. He died in Edinburgh on 11 March 1855 after a four year illness.

The surname Graham was first found in Midlothian, where they settled after accompanying Earl David of Huntingdon into Scotland during the 12th century. In 1128, King David I granted the lands of Abercorn and Dalkeith to William de Graham, who is the first recorded member of the Graham Clan in Scotland and was witness to several royal charters. Henry de Graham inherited the estates of his father-in-law in Eskdale in 1243. Sir John de Grahame was a faithful companion of the Scottish patriot Sir William Wallace and was killed at the Battle of Falkirk in 1298. Spelling variations of this Clan name include: Graham, Grahame, Graeme, Grame, Greumach, Gaelic, Montross and many more.

Thomas Graham, a cabinet maker, arrived in New South Wales, Australia sometime between 1825 and 1832; William Graham, a weaver, arrived in Van Diemen’s Land, now Tasmania, sometime between 1825 and 1832; Donald Graham, arrived in Pictou, Nova Scotia, Canada, in 1773; James W Graham, landed in New York, America, in 1801; Alexander Graham, aged 34, landed in New York, NY, America, in 1803; Elizabeth Graham, landed in Maryland, America, in 1676.

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